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Discussion

Analyzing the state of Queer Studies in contemporary Russia does not mean to tell the story of success for several reasons, among them the very influential role played by social xenophobia. And it became extremely difficult to speak about Queer culture, literature, and films in scientific discourse, after the approval in 2013 of the Russian federal law “for the Purpose of Protecting Children from Information Advocating for a Denial of Traditional Family Values”, which made every open discussion quite risky and almost impossible. 

Moreover, issues of geography and spatial structure in poetical texts could also be significant in attempting to define and depict the poetical system and trends of Russian Queer culture, which are said to be a reflection of the unstable social situation, personal traumatic experience, or strong escapist intention. The proposed object of study is poetry created by Russian Queer authors in the period of the first 3 decades after the fall of the USSR, while the subject of the research is the spatial system of geographical images and models, and local texts. The main purpose of the project hence is to reveal the evolution of geographical images in the poems written by the poets belonged to the LGBTQ community in Russia, to identify changes in their understanding of space, to point out the diverse connections between sexuality and space, gender and geography. Analyzing Russian Queer culture of 1990–2010s as an aesthetic and social